Paris rioters burn cars as anti-poLice protests spread

Rioters burnt dozens of cars and set fire to a nursery school in the poor northern suburbs of Paris in further unrest sparked by the arrest of a young black man by officers who have been charged with beating and raping him.

Police arrested 17 people in the disturbances that have affected several different areas in the same suburbs where riots by disgruntled youths of immigrant origin began in 2005 and spread across the country.